Cooking vessel and like handle



July 2, 1929. E. M. BOLTON 1,719,461

COOKING VESSEL AND LIKE HANDLE Filed June 2l... 1927 Figi.

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Patented July 2, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDITH MARY BOLTON, OF GERRARDS CROSS, ENGLAND.

COOKING VESSEL AND LIKE HANDLE.

Application filed June 21, 1927, Serial No. 200,326, and in Great Britain September 24, 1926.

l1`his invention relates to means for the heat insulation ot the handles of eooking' vessel lids.

A ('onstant sourro ot ineonvenienro and often ot' art-idents in Cooking is the hraiiiuf otf handles ot saucepan lids and lids ot oher sut-,h cooking utensils surh handles being' genorally mad@l ot nir-tal, and the ohject ot' thel present invention is tho eonstruetion of heat insulating means whirh may he titted to sueh handles and may he easily and quietly attarhed and detarhed.

ln carrying this invention into etlert l torln a handle ot any suitahlo heat insulating' material surh as vulranite, ehonite, wood, and so torth and l torni for use in ronjunrtion with surh heat insulatinghandley a spring rlip which may ho tixed to tho same and also to the handle, of the lid to he insulated.

My invention may he. more elearly understood hy inference to the aeeompanying drawings in which;-

Fig's. l and 2 show a side and end view of heat, insulating handles made aeeordingf to this invention.

lfigs. l and l are side and end views ot a moditieation ot the, same and Figs. 5 and G a sido and end view of a further moditication.

Referring to Figs. Vl and Q, I form a. plato or slah l. of any ronvenient heat insulating material and l atta h to the, underside ot this metal rlip (l. having an approximately horizontal return surh as may (flip tightly upon a handle approximately reetangular in eross section such as is in common use for thoy lids ot roolting' vessels and as shown in dotted lines at I. Surh au insulating handle may he. slipped on and otl' at will or may he lett, permanently in its place.

Figs. il and 4, illustrate a similar insulator hut with vertieally disposed (flips C. and adapted to clip over handles whirh are ot' rurved or rirrular rross sertion. ln order yto prevent sufh insulators trom moving' round transversely on tho rurved surtaen ot these, handles l earry the elip at ezu'h end past the downward extending parts ot' th(` handles' as at e. e. and hy this means the)v aro maintained in the vortiral position. and in order to prevent sueh insulator rot-king' longitudinally upon tlm rm'ved upper surtaee of snrh handles l out a hole n. in the hase o'll the ('lip so that the clip only hears on the insulating plate l). at ear-h end 7). In. ot' the, plate and tho insulator in this way is prevented from rotting'.

`Figs. 5 and illustrato a partirular method ot attaehing the spring (flips to tho heatinsulating plate. 'lhis method ronsists in torming the ('lip with a dovet ail extension r. on its hase and forming the plate with an underont reress 7'. into whirh the said dovetail extonsion ot the elip may he forred so that the. (-lip is held firmly in its plaee. lt should he understood that the heat insulating plates may he of any size or shape found eonvenient and that the spring' clips may he l'ornud so as to tit or adapt themselves to any dosired type of handle.

lVhat l claim is:M

AV heat insulating handle having' a spring elip adapted to remov: hly grip an :ilongated handle ol" a Cooking' vessel lid, said spring clip having a (lovetailed extension and ronlovahly attac-hed to saidV insulatingl handle by sliding into an undervut grooveI in the same.

In Witness whereof l have signed this sperti lation.

EDTH MARY BOLTON. 

